Building an "animal punk" nation

With a group of friends, we are trying to build an RPG in a quite specific setup which I have a hard time to find elsewhere in order to get some inspiration/information.

So what I mean by that is: a nation where most of the technology is based on using animals or at least living creatures. Things like the little devil who paints photographies in cameras in the Discworld (it's a hard world), or like the millipede subway of Ekhö.

Transportation, weapons, energy producing maybe with eel-like animals... As much of the technology as possible would be based on animals, but otherwise it would still be a modern if not contemporary setup with buildings, electricity, etc, inspired from the 50s in the real world.

So I end up with two questions :

• do you know of works of fiction with this kind of setup? Only one we could think of is Ekhö.
• do you see some obvious pitfalls, some reason for which it would not possible at all in a modern city, which would break the immersion? I guess that there would need to be a lot of accomodations like drinking throughs everywhere but it doesn't seem unthinkable.

Many thanks!

posted almost 5 years ago

Alexandre Leonardi‭

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